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/Mr Talent Moyo
Mr Talent Moyo

Position: Lecturer

Department: Community Studies
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Qualifications

  • PhD in Sociology student (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
  •  Master of Science in Sociology and Social Anthropology (University of Zimbabwe)
  • Bachelor of Science Honours in Sociology (University of Zimbabwe)

Research Interests: 

  • Youth Studies
  • Migration Studies
  • Identities
  • Urban Sociology
  • Social Policy
  • Political Sociology. 

Publications:

Ngwenya, P. & Moyo, T. (2024). Covid-19 and managing urban marginality in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Cities, 150, 105029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105029 

Moyo, T. (2024). Of vaccines, biopower, subjects and governmentality: An ethnographic enquiry on Zimbabwean Covid-19 vaccination drive. Anthropology Southern Africa, 47(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2265942 

Chadambuka, P., Moyo, T., Zengeni, F., Gandah, P. P. T. (2024). Domestic Communal Land Grabbing and Dwindling Peri-Urban Spaces: The Case of Midlands District’s Mataga Communal Areas. In Matanzima, J., Chadambuka, P., Helliker, K. (eds.) Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe. London https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003424697/natural-resource-based-conflicts-rural-zimbabwe-joshua-matanzima-patience-chadambuka-kirk-helliker 

Moyo, T. (2023). “The 2030 Agenda, Climate Urbanism and Urban Planning in Zimbabwe,” in Cobbinah, P. B. and Gaisie, E. (eds) Reimagining Urban Planning in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 282–302. doi: 10.1017/9781009389457.021.

Moyo, T. (2023). Subaltern urbanism as a way of life: Redefining and (re) imagining postcolonial urbanity in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Journal of Urban Affairs, 45(3), 428-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2099284 

Moyo, T. (2020). Sexuality as a tool to gain political power: an introspection of Zimbabwean elections of 2013. African Identities, 18(4), 421-434. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1777837 

Moyo, T. (2015). Informalisation and Privatisation of Social Protection and Social Security in the Context of Zimbabwean Economic Downturn. In R. Mahomva & S. Moyo, (eds) The Post-1980 Chimurengas Explained. Bulawayo: LAN, pp.73-96 

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